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(1,810 posts)nolabear
(41,960 posts)I agree wholeheartedly with this. Childrens brains are literally growing connections. We think in terms of thoughts and feelings but those are produced by neural connections. Some fare better than others but theres not a one that comes out unchanged. When you lose the connection to parents (or steady caregivers) as safety, a source of trust, someone from whom you literally learn to be human, you find ways to survive and find comfort differently throughout your life.
They wont be the same.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,548 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Niagara
(7,605 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)What an abomination the Trump administration is.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)I am sickened and outraged.
Ted Lieu is my congressman, and I am so proud of what he is doing here.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,342 posts)We need to hold these Nazis accountable and purge our government of them.
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)doing the very evil and nasty deeds and that fact needs to be driven home each and everyday on the MSM. Sadly that is never going to happen with our corporate owned media and perhaps sadder yet is how many of our fellow citizens are ok with it!!
calimary
(81,238 posts)Leave people off-balance about whatever-it-is. And if there's nothing but a muddle (especially if it's MULTIPLE muddles every day, cascading furiously down upon each other like a waterfall from Hell)? That's the whole point. It's such an avalanche that those it's aimed at are eventually likely to throw up their hands, say various forms of "fuck it!", and give up. Or tune out. Or otherwise not stand up to it. You've heard the metaphor about how it's "like trying to drink out of a fire hose." The old Dan Rather maxim about how "if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit" comes to mind, too.
When I was younger and studying karate, our sensei always stressed "Jab! Jab! Jab-Jab-Jab! Keep jabbing! Jab! Keep jabbing! Keep 'em busy! Keep 'em busy! Keep jabbing! Don't stop jabbing! Keep 'em busy!" MAN does that ever come back to me now, lo these 20-some-odd years later. You wear down the opponent that way. And then, more likely than not, the opponent gives up or tires more quickly and fails to keep up an effective defense. Keep 'em busy. Wear 'em out. I think that's what trump is trying to do. Lies, changes his mind sometimes within the same day, denies, delays, makes shit up, blames it on somebody else, stonewalls, makes excuses, tries to rewrite the incident or the quote, tries to distract, threatens to sue (or does file suit), claims he doesn't remember.
WHY are we putting up with this? Why the Hell?
IMPEACH. At least it leaves a permanent mark. It'll ALWAYS be there in the history books. For all time.
on edit - By the way, Welcome to DU, Kaiserguy!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Would it even do any good?
What kind of people can do this to children? This is approaching 1930s Germany levels of evil.
democrank
(11,094 posts)How can we let this happen? This precious child has been changed forever.
pazzyanne
(6,551 posts)Beringia
(4,316 posts)Possum Hunter1
(7 posts)I believe anything Alyssa says. She's the most beautiful woman I know.